The “Poker 2006 – The State of Play” poker survey, in which over 500 poker players across Ireland and the United Kingdom have taken part, has shed new light on the entertaining and endearing habits of the poker-loving public. Findings of the survey have been published in PDF format and the full six pages are available for download at Paddy Power’s website.
While the survey’s results are generally a light-hearted attempt at understanding how poker players tick, Paddy Power has reported that the survey’s results come from deep within “the hearts and minds of British and Irish poker players".
Among the results was the admission that 55 percent of poker players in Ireland and the United Kingdom have tried playing poker in their underwear or naked. 71 percent of players have resisted the temptation to destroy their computers after a bad run in online poker, and 63 percent would rather engage in poker than in sex. 33 percent of poker fans admitted they would gamble their partner in a poker game, while 37 percent confess to lying about their poker-playing habits.
While some of the statistics are less unusual – 38 percent of those surveyed engage in poker daily and 81 percent believe poker relies more on skill than on luck – by far the strangest finding is that 13 percent of all poker players have sustained injuries playing poker!

The political persuasions of poker players were also addressed in one of the survey’s sections, which found that most poker players in the United Kingdom vote Conservative while their Irish counterparts intend to vote for Fianna Fail in Ireland’s next general election.
The historical figure that poker fans said they would most like to play poker with was Elvis Presley, followed closely by western legend Wild Bill Hickok. Most respondents also nominated Fidel Castro as the winner of an imaginary poker game. Castro was predicted to come out on tops after beating fellow competitors Osama Bin Laden, Tony Blair, George Bush, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong.

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